Rules?? What rules? I want fun!

Let’s face it kids like to have fun, and more often than not regardless of the rules at your place it’s going to happen if your with them or not. Kids have an extremely unique gift of being able to not see consequences even if they do know right from wrong. I feel like they actually have to test the water themselves to make sure we as parents aren’t lying about it.

On Saturday night we drove around and looked at Christmas lights. The kids had watched the movie “Billy Maddison” the night before and were laughing about funny it would be to light to a bag of dog poo on fire and put it on someone’s door step like in the movie. Let’s do it!, let’s have a laugh. While we didn’t let them go as far as lighting a bag of steamy dog poo, we did let them play a game of “ding-dong-dash”.

Without even mentioning consequences we took them to our friends house. A 23year old bachelor it was about 8:30pm. He didn’t know we were coming. Parked the car, turned it off and waited. The kids snuck up to the door hiding behind bushes and cars in full stealth mode! It was awesome to watch, they were having a blast! Rung the door bell and took off like rockets in 4 different directions, sniggering and laughing. In the process of the dash our eldest slipped on some twigs and leaves fell, slid and rolled. I haven’t laughed so hard in ages, I had tears and was wishing I had a dash cam to replay it to him in slow motion.

Our unsuspecting mate comes out “hello? Is anyone there? Hello?” No one answered so he went back inside. Kids are still sniggering from their hiding places and start to go again. This time though we call our mate from the car, tell him it was us and let him know the kids are coming again. His instruction was to scare them, kids are creeping, hubby is telling our mate “closer, closer NOW!! “Raaaaaahhhhhhh”. Screams, running. Laughter. It was so funny.

The point, firstly I hope it is a memory they keep and re-tell around the dinner table for many years to come. Secondly, now they’ve done it in a supervised environment I can hope they won’t feel the need to do it to rebel against rules and scare the pants of an old lady.

I learnt a long time ago that we as parents are outnumbered. As soon as our kids figure that out we are screwed. 😂😂 So if you can’t beat em’, join em’.